CDNS achieves Rs 225 billion in 8 months

News Image

By MG News | March 27, 2019 at 08:00 PM GMT+05:00

0:00

ISLAMABAD, Mar 27:The Central Directorate of National Savings (CDNS) has achieved net target of Rs 225 billion during first eight months (Jul-Feb) 2018-19 as compared to same period  of last year’s collection of Rs 96 billion, showing a surge of 126 percent.

The total savings held by the CDNS stood at Rs 1385 billion by March 20 while the directorate had Rs 726 billion by same date, a year ago, senior official of CDNS told APP here Wednesday.

Due to rationalization of CDNS certificates’ rates, the directorate is more than expected collection, therefore it will revise set target of Rs 224 billion for April 2019, upward.

The official said that the CDNS notified upward revision in the profit rates for various saving certificates which has been applicable from January 1, 2019, which increased the people’s trend of investing more with CDNS.

“The instant revision was made in the backdrop of current market scenario and in accordance with the government’s policy to provide market based competitive rate of return to the investors of National Savings”, the official said.

He said as per notification issued by the federal government, the new rates for Defense Savings Certificate, Special Saving Certificate, Regular Income Certificate, Savings Accounts, Shuhada Family Welfare account have been revised upward at an  average of 12.47 percent, 11.40 percent, 12 percent, 8.5 percent,14.28 percent respectively.

The official said the profit rate of return for specialized Savings Schemes like Bahbood Savings Certificates and Pensioners’ Benefit Account has also been revised upward and fixed at 14.28 percent respectively in order to provide safety net to specialized segments of the society.

He said that the proposal to launch registered prize bonds which offer coupons as well as prizes was also under consideration.

 

(APP)

Related News

Name Price/Vol %Chg/NChg
KSE100 128,199.43
336.91M
2.05%
2572.11
ALLSHR 79,787.62
1,023.63M
1.53%
1202.91
KSE30 39,105.00
121.90M
2.49%
951.21
KMI30 186,915.61
131.16M
1.10%
2029.11
KMIALLSHR 54,201.88
553.60M
0.81%
438.07
BKTi 33,476.68
51.49M
4.87%
1555.00
OGTi 27,962.58
9.77M
0.68%
188.60
Symbol Bid/Ask High/Low
Name Last High/Low Chg/%Chg
BITCOIN FUTURES 105,730.00 106,200.00
105,625.00
-20.00
-0.02%
BRENT CRUDE 67.13 67.29
67.09
0.02
0.03%
RICHARDS BAY COAL MONTHLY 97.50 97.50
97.50
0.70
0.72%
ROTTERDAM COAL MONTHLY 103.80 103.80
103.80
-3.45
-3.22%
USD RBD PALM OLEIN 998.50 998.50
998.50
0.00
0.00%
CRUDE OIL - WTI 65.41 65.65
65.40
-0.04
-0.06%
SUGAR #11 WORLD 15.70 16.21
15.55
-0.50
-3.09%

Chart of the Day


Latest News
July 02, 2025 at 06:01 AM GMT+05:00

MG Morning Breeze: Updates to Skim before Market


July 01, 2025 at 10:04 PM GMT+05:00

Pakistan’s trade deficit improves by over 9% in June


July 01, 2025 at 05:24 PM GMT+05:00

Gold price in Pakistan rises Rs6,600 per tola



Top 5 things to watch in this week

Pakistan Stock Movers
Name Last Chg/%Chg
Name Last Chg/%Chg